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# General Information:
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Job continues his thoughts about dying before he was born.
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# Or I would have been lying ... that never see the light
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This describes something that might have happened but did not happen. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
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# I would have been lying with princes
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"I would be resting with princes." In this phrase, the words "lying" and "resting" are a polite way of saying "no longer alive." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# who once had gold, who had filled their houses with silver
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Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, like infants that never see the light
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Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# I would have been stillborn
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"I would have died in my mother's womb"
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# like infants that never see the light
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"like babies who had never been born"
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# infants
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"babies" or "very small children"
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prince]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/gold]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/house]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/silver]]
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